Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Storage Array

Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F is a scalable, unified, all flash storage system that is designed to provide high performance, simplicity, capacity, security, and high availability for large enterprises. Powered by the ONTAP software, ThinkSystem DM7100F delivers enterprise-class storage management capabilities with a wide choice of host connectivity options, flexible drive configurations, and enhanced data management features, including end-to-end NVMe support (NVMe over Fabrics and NVMe drives). The DM7100F is a perfect fit for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including big data and analytics, artificial intelligence, engineering and design, hybrid clouds, and other storage I/O-intensive applications.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F 4U controller enclosure is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F

Up to 12 DM7100F Storage Arrays can be combined into a clustered system in a NAS environment, or up to 6 DM7100F Storage Arrays can be combined into a clustered system in a SAN environment.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F offers end-to-end NVMe storage connectivity with NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeOF) and NVMe drives by implementing NVMe/FC with 32 Gb Fibre Channel host interfaces.

A single ThinkSystem DM7100F scales up to 7.37 PB of raw storage capacity. A cluster of the DM7100F storage systems scales up to 88.4 PB for NAS or up to 44.2 PB for SAN environments.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F offers unified file and block storage connectivity, and it supports multiple storage protocols simultaneously with a choice of 1/10 GbE, 25 GbE, and 40/100 GbE NAS and iSCSI, 8/16/32 Gb Fibre Channel, and 32 Gb NVMe/FC.

A single ThinkSystem DM7100F Storage Array consists of the 4U rack-mount controller enclosure and one or more expansion enclosures. The controller enclosure includes two controllers, 256 GB RAM (128 GB RAM per controller), and 32 GB battery-backed NVRAM (16 GB NVRAM per controller). 25 GbE SFP28 NAS/iSCSI or 4/8/16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) ports on the controller's mezzanine cards provide base host connectivity, with adapter card options for additional 1/10 GbE, 25 GbE, or 40/100 GbE NAS/iSCSI, 8/16/32 Gb FC, or 32 Gb NVMe/FC connections. The attachment of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM240N 2U24 SFF and DM240S 2U24 SFF Expansion Enclosures to the controller enclosure provides scalability up to 96 NVMe SSDs or up to 480 SAS SSDs.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array offers the following key features and benefits:

• All-flash array capabilities with end-to-end NVMe to meet the demand for higher storage performance at lower latency and provide higher IOPs and bandwidth with lower power usage and total cost of ownership than hybrid or HDD-based solutions.
• NVMe and SAS drive-side connectivity with up to 24x 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives in the 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures.
• Scalability to up to 96 NVMe SSDs or 480 SAS SFF solid-state drives with the attachment of the ThinkSystem DM240N 2U24 SFF and DM240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures to satisfy growing needs for storage performance and capacity.
• Scalable, all flash storage with dual active/active controller configurations for high availability and performance.
• Improved performance and data protection with RAID-DP and RAID-TEC, as well as support for traditional RAID 4.
• Flexible host connectivity to match diverse customer needs with support for unified NAS and SAN storage protocols, including 1/10 GbE, 25 GbE, and 40/100 GbE NAS and iSCSI, 8/16/32 Gb Fibre Channel, and 32 Gb NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity.
• Rich set of standard storage management functions available at no extra cost, including snapshots, volume copy, quality of service, thin provisioning, compression, deduplication, encryption, disk-based backup, application- and virtual machine-aware backup, quick data recovery, clustering, synchronous replication, and asynchronous replication.
• Optional licensed functions, including WORM (write once, read many) data protection (SnapLock) and automated tiering of data from high-performance SSDs to object storage in public or private clouds (FabricPool).
• Scale-out clustering of up to 12 ThinkSystem DM Series storage systems for NAS connectivity or up to six DM Series storage systems for SAN connectivity.
• Intuitive, web-based GUI for easy system setup and management.
• Lenovo XClarity support for centralized systems management of Lenovo x86 servers, switches, and storage, which provides automated agent-less discovery, inventory, monitoring, and additional platform-specific functions across multiple systems.
• Designed for 99.9999% availability with redundant hot-swap components, including controllers and I/O modules, power supplies, system fans (4U controller enclosures), and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
• Certified storage for Oracle VM
• Certified storage for Citrix XenServer

The DM7100F controller enclosure supports attachment of up to two ThinkSystem DM240N 2U24 SFF NVMe and up to 18 DM240S 2U24 SFF SAS expansion enclosures, or up to 20 DM240S 2U24 SFF SAS expansion enclosures. The following SFF drives are supported:

• 1.92 TB and 3.84 TB NVMe hot-swap SSDs.
• 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB NVMe hot-swap SSD SEDs.
• 960 GB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB 12 Gbps SAS hot-swap SSDs.

More drives and expansion enclosures are designed to be dynamically added with virtually no downtime, which helps to quickly and seamlessly respond to ever-growing capacity demands.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array offers high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:

• Dual-active controllers (high availability pair) with automatic load balancing and failover
• Mirrored, battery-backed controller NVRAM* 
• Automatic drive failure detection and rebuild
• Redundant, hot-swappable and customer replaceable hardware components, including SFP+/QSFP+ transceivers, controller and I/O modules, power supplies, system fans (4U controller enclosure), and drives
• Automated failover for the data path between the host and the drives with multipathing
• Non-disruptive controller and drive firmware upgrades
• Scale-out clustering

*NVRAM is battery-backed memory used to protect inbound writes as they arrive. This fact allows write operations to be safely acknowledged without having to wait for a disk operation to complete, greatly reducing write latency.

The following figure shows the front of the ThinkSystem DM7100F 4U controller enclosure without a front bezel.

Figure 2. ThinkSystem DM7100F 4U controller enclosure front view

The front of the ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure includes the following components:

• 8x Redundant hot-swap system fans.
• Enclosure status LEDs.

Figure 4. ThinkSystem DM7100F 4U controller enclosure rear view: Slots

The front of the ThinkSystem DM240S 2U SFF SAS expansion enclosure includes the following components:

• 24 SFF hot-swap drive bays.
• Enclosure status LEDs.
• Enclosure ID LED.

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array storage system specifications.

Note: The supported hardware options, software features, and interoperability listed in this product guide are based on the ONTAP software version 9.7. For details about specific software releases that introduced support for certain hardware options and software features, refer to the Change History for the particular software release for the ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array that can be found at:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

* Estimated theoretical performance based on the capacity planning for specific configurations and workloads.
** For a detailed list of configuration limits and restrictions for a specific version of the software, refer to the Lenovo Data Center Support website:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

Factory-integrated models of the ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array are configured by using the Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator (DCSC):
http://dcsc.lenovo.com

The following table lists the CTO base models for the ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array.

Configuration note: Two DM7100 controllers (feature code B94T) are pre-selected in the configurator.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure ships with two DM7100 controllers. A controller provides interfaces for host connectivity, management, and internal drives, and it runs ONTAP storage management software. Each ThinkSystem DM7100 controller enclosure provides 256 GB RAM and 32 GB battery-backed NVRAM (128 GB RAM and 32 GB NVRAM per controller).

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosures ship with four HA interconnect 25 GbE SFP28 ports (two ports per controller) to cable a directly-connected dual-controller HA pair, and four cluster interconnect 100 GbE QSFP28 ports (two ports on the 100 GbE SmartIO adapter card [feature code BAZ1] installed in the Slot 3 on each of the DM7100 controllers) to cable a directly connected (one HA pair) or switched (multiple HA pairs) cluster. Up to six HA pairs can be combined into a single SAN cluster or up to 12 HA pairs can be combined into a single NAS cluster.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure provides four QSFP28 ports for 100 GbE NVMe expansion connectivity, and it also has two mezzanine slots (one slot per controller) for mezzanine cards and eight available expansion slots (four slots per controller) for adapter cards.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure also provides eight integrated 12 Gb SAS x4 expansion ports (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644 connectors) (four ports per controller) for the attachment of the DM240S 2U24 SFF SAS expansion enclosures.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure provides a choice of the following interfaces on the mezzanine cards for base host connectivity (ports per mezzanine card): 

• 4x 25 GbE SFP28 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require optical transceivers or DAC cables that should be purchased for the mezzanine card).
• 4x 4/8/16 Gb FC SFP+ ports for FC connectivity (require SFP+ SW optical transceivers that should be purchased for the mezzanine card).

The following interfaces can be added to the ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosures with optional adapter cards (ports per adapter card):

• Host interfaces
  • 2x 1/10 GbE RJ-45 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require RJ-45 UTP Category 6 cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 4x 10 GbE SFP+ ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require DAC cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 2x 25 GbE SFP28 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require optical transceivers or DAC cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 2x 40/100 GbE QSFP28 ports for NAS or iSCSI connectivity (require optical transceivers or DAC cables that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 4x 8/16/32 Gb FC SFP+ ports for FC connectivity, or NVMe/FC with 32 Gb ports (SW SFP+ transceivers with LC connectors included).
• Expansion interfaces:
  • 2x 100 GbE RoCE QSFP28 ports for NVMe/RoCE expansion connectivity.
  • 4x 12 Gb SAS x4 ports (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) for SAS expansion connectivity.
• MetroCluster interfaces:
  • 2x 40/100 GbE iWARP QSFP28 ports for MetroCluster IP connectivity (require optical transceivers that should be purchased for the adapter card).
  • 2x 4/8/16 Gb FC SFP+ ports for MetroCluster FC connectivity (require SFP+ SW optical transceivers that should be purchased for the adapter card) (planned for the future).

Configuration notes:

• A pair of the mezzanine cards is required for selection.
• The optional adapter cards should be installed in pairs: Up to four pairs of the adapter cards are supported per controller enclosure (up to four adapter cards per controller), including a combination of the adapter card pairs.
• Both controllers must have matching configurations of the mezzanine ports (type and physical connections) and adapter cards (type, quantity, slot location, and physical connections).
• The optional adapter cards should be installed in the controller's expansion slots in the following order: Slot 2, Slot 4, Slot 1, Slot 5.
  Note: In the configurations with two DM240N expansion enclosures, a pair of additional 100 GbE RoCE adapter cards is required for dual HA direct connectivity to the expansion enclosures, and these cards must be installed in the Slot 5 of the DM7100 controllers.

The following table lists the controller for the ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array and supported connectivity options.

* Factory-installed only.
** For 25G leverage: 4M27A67041 Lenovo 25Gb SR SFP28 Ethernet Transceiver

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure supports attachment of up to two ThinkSystem DM240N 2U24 SFF NVMe and up to eight DM240S 2U24 SFF SAS expansion enclosures. The expansion enclosures can be added to the system non-disruptively.

Note: The addition of the second DM240N NVMe expansion enclosure to the storage arrays that were previously configured with one DM240N NVMe expansion enclosure requires planned system downtime.

The following expansion connectivity topologies are supported:

• NVMe expansion connectivity
• SAS expansion connectivity

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure supports direct attachment of up to two DM240N NVMe expansion enclosures for a total of up to 48 NVMe drives. For one NVMe expansion enclosure, the integrated 100 GbE QSFP28 ports on the DM7100 controller can be used. For two NVMe expansion enclosures, an additional 2-port 100 GbE QSFP28 adapter card is required for the DM7100 controller.

The example expansion connectivity topologies for one and two enclosures with dual-path HA (high availability) are shown in the following figures.

Figure 9. DM7100F NVMe expansion connectivity topology: One enclosure

NVMe expansion cabling rules:

• On the Controller A, the integrated 100 GbE Port C is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module A in the first expansion enclosure, and the integrated 100 GbE Port D is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module B in the same (in case of only one expansion enclosure) or second expansion enclosure.
• On the Controller B, the integrated 100 GbE Port C is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module B in the first expansion enclosure, and the integrated 100 GbE Port D is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module A in the same (in case of only one expansion enclosure) or second expansion enclosure.
• On the Controller A, the Port 1 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module A in the second expansion enclosure, and the Port 2 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module B in the first expansion enclosure.
• On the Controller B, the Port 1 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port A on the NVMe I/O Module B in the second expansion enclosure, and the Port 2 on the 100 GbE adapter card is connected to the Port B in the NVMe I/O Module A in the first expansion enclosure.

SAS expansion topology

Each ThinkSystem DM240S expansion enclosure ships with two SAS I/O expansion modules. Each I/O expansion module provides four external 12 Gb SAS x4 ports (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644 connectors labelled Port 1-4) that are used for connections to the ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure and for daisy chaining the expansion enclosures between each other.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F controller enclosure supports up to six SAS expansion enclosure stacks with up to four enclosures in each stack for a total of up to 480 SAS SSDs. For one or two stacks, the integrated SAS expansion ports on the DM7100 controller can be used. For three or four stacks, an additional 4-port SAS adapter card is required for the DM7100 controller. For five or six stacks, two additional 4-port SAS adapter cards are required for the DM7100 controller.

The example expansion connectivity topology for one or two enclosure stacks with dual-path HA (high availability) are shown in the following figures.

Figure 11. DM7100F SAS expansion connectivity topology: One stack

Figure 12. DM7100F SAS expansion connectivity topology: Two stacks

SAS expansion cabling rules:

• Ports A and C (integrated and on the SAS adapter cards) on the Controller 1 are primary paths to separate stacks; each port is connected to the Port 1 on the I/O Module A in the first expansion enclosure in the stack.
• Ports A and C (integrated and on the SAS adapter cards) on the Controller 2 are primary paths to separate stacks; each port is connected to the Port 1 on the I/O Module B in the first expansion enclosure in the stack.
• Ports A at the same location (either integrated or on the SAS adapter cards) on both controllers are connected to the same stack; Ports C at the same location (either integrated or on the SAS adapter cards) on both controllers are connected to the same stack.
• Ports B and D (integrated and on the SAS adapter cards) on the Controller 1 are secondary paths to separate stacks; each port is connected to the Port 3 on the I/O Module B in the last expansion enclosure in the stack.
• Ports B and D (integrated and on the SAS adapter cards) on the Controller 2 are secondary paths to separate stacks; each port is connected to the Port 3 on the I/O Module A in the last expansion enclosure in the stack.
• Ports B at the same location (either integrated or on the SAS adapter cards) on both controllers are connected to the same stack; Ports D at the same location (either integrated or on the SAS adapter cards) on both controllers are connected to the same stack.
• Port 3 on the I/O Module A in the first expansion enclosure in a stack is connected to Port 1 on the I/O Module A in the adjacent expansion enclosure in the same stack, and so on (until the last expansion enclosure in the stack is cabled).
• Port 3 on the I/O Module B in the first expansion enclosure in a stack is connected to Port 1 on the I/O Module B in the adjacent expansion enclosure in the same stack, and so on (until the last expansion enclosure in the stack is cabled).

Configuration notes:

• The following quantities of SAS cables are needed per stack of the SAS expansion enclosures:
  • Two SAS cables per expansion enclosure in the stack for connecting the first expansion enclosure in the stack to the controller enclosure and for connections to the adjacent expansion enclosures.
  • Two additional SAS cables for connecting the last expansion enclosure in the stack to the controller enclosure.
• The length of the SAS cables that connect a 2U24 SAS enclosure to an adjacent 4U controller enclosure should be at least 1 meter.

With the DM7100F, the drives are installed in the expansion enclosures. The ThinkSystem DM240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures support up to 24 SFF NVMe hot-swap SSDs, and the DM240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures support up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA hot-swap SSDs.

The following table lists supported drive packs for the controller and expansion enclosures.

Configuration notes:

• When ordering the systems, select the drives that match the ONTAP offering and bundle you are installing on the DM controller. Drive feature codes are specific to Unified or SAN Only offerings, and to Base, Fundamentals and Premium bundles. See the Software section for details.
• Drives are sold in packs. Supported quantities are as follows:
  • The DM240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure supports 12, 18 or 24 NVMe drives (4 packs of 6 drives)
  • The DM240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure supports 12, 18 or 24 SAS/SATA drives (4 packs of 6 drives)
  • A minimum of 2 drive packs is required.
• For factory-installed drive packs, all drives in the enclosure must be of the same type and capacity.

* Drive packs for field upgrades can be ordered via the CTO base 7D4FCTO1WW (refer to the configuration note).
** Available worldwide except PRC and RUCIS markets

Feature bundles

Controller software for the DM7100F is available in the following bundles of features:

• Unified Essentials (China only) (Feature BWU9)
• Unified Complete (Feature BWU8)

The following table summarizes the features in each bundle for the DM7100F.

• RAID-4, RAID-DP, and RAID-TEC data protection: Provides the flexibility to choose the level of data protection required and helps improve performance and availability with built-in spare capacity and by distributing data across all physical drives in the aggregate, sustaining to up to one (RAID-4), two (RAID-DP), or three (RAID-TEC) concurrent drive failures. 
• All Flash Array (AFA) capability: Meets the demand for higher speed, lower latency storage and provides higher IOPS and bandwidth with lower power usage and total cost of ownership than hybrid or HDD-based solutions.
• Thin provisioning: Optimizes efficiency by allocating storage space based on the minimum space required by each application at any given time, so that applications consume only the space they are actually using, not the total space that has been allocated to them, which allows customers to purchase storage they need today and add more as application requirements grow. 
• Compression: Provides transparent inline and post-process data compression to reduce the amount of storage that customers need to purchase and manage. 
• Compaction: enhances compression to further reduce the amount of storage that customers need to purchase and manage. 
• Deduplication: Performs general-purpose deduplication for removal of redundant data to reduce the amount of storage that customers need to purchase and manage. 
• Snapshots: Enables creation of read-only copies of data for backup, parallel processing, testing, and development, and have the copies available almost immediately. 
• Encryption: Provides software-based encryption for data at rest for enhanced data security with the traditional drives and embedded key management (requires the encryption-capable version of the ONTAP software). 
• Balanced placement: Provides automated workload distribution across the cluster to help increase utilization and performance. 
• Dynamic capacity expansion: Allows the capacity of a volume or aggregate to be expanded by adding new physical drives. 
• Adaptive Quality of Service: Simplifies operations and maintains consistent workload performance by defining QoS policies and automatically adjusting storage resources to respond to workload changes. 
• SnapRestore: Enables quick recovery of data by reverting a local volume or file to its previous state from a particular snapshot copy stored on the file system. 
• FlexClone: References snapshot metadata to create writable point-in-time copies of a volume. 
• FlexVol: Provides abstraction layer between the logical volume and its physical location in the storage array. 
• FlexCache: Speeds up access to data and offloads traffic from heavily accessed volumes for read-intensive workloads by placing frequently used data in cache locally or remotely (closer to the point of client access) and serving the data to the clients directly from cache without accessing the data source. 
• SnapMirror asynchronous replication: Provides storage system-based data replication between the storage systems containing source (local) and destination (remote) volumes by using asynchronous (at specified regular intervals) data transfers over IP communication links. 
• SyncMirror data protection: Adds extra level of data protection and availability by mirroring a pair of RAID aggregates. 
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM): For encryption enabled systems.  The encryption keys for the onboard key manager (OKM) are no longer stored in the boot device, but instead are stored in the physical TPM for systems so equipped, offering greater security and protection. Moving to the TPM is a nondisruptive process.
• MetroCluster IP: Provides storage system-based clustering with online, real-time data mirroring between the local and remote sites by using synchronous data transfers over IP communication links to deliver continuous availability with zero RPO and near-zero RTO. All storage systems in a MetroCluster IP configuration must be of the same model. New to ONTAP 9.11: MetroCluster with Storage Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery (SVM-DR) can now use a third site for the SVM-DR
• NVMe over FC Protocol: Enables NVMe over FC
• NVMe over TCP Protocol: Enables NVMe over TCP
• Data Protection Optimized (DPO): Increases the amount of concurrent SnapMirror sessions per node, as well as improving SnapMirror performance to the cluster.
• SnapMirror Business Continuity (SMBC): Non-disruptive failover active-active cross site clusters. Based on existing SnapMirror Synchronous Replication. Offers Zero data loss, zero downtime. You do not have to failover the application. If there is a failure the application will continue to run and there will be no need to restart.
• SnapMirror synchronous replication: Provides storage system-based data replication between the storage systems containing source (local) and destination (remote) volumes by using synchronous (as soon as the data is written to the source volume)
• FlexGroup: Enables a single volume to span across multiple clustered storage arrays to maximize storage capacity and automate load distribution. New to ONTAP 9.11: FlexGroups can now be created as SnapLock volumes.
• SnapVault disk-based storage backup: Enables data stored on multiple systems to be backed up to a central, secondary system quickly and efficiently as read-only snapshot copies. 
• SnapCenter: Provides application- and virtual machine-aware backup and restoration of data by using the Snapshots technology and leverages the SnapMirror capabilities of storage systems to provide onsite or offsite backup set mirroring for disaster recovery. 
• ONTAP S3: Expands the DM Series unified story and allows customers to manage, block, file, and object data from one interface. Customers can now natively store data in S3 buckets onboard the DM Series. 
• ONTAP S3 SnapMirror : Enables you to protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality. Requires ONTAP 9.11 or later on both source and destination clusters. Requires the Unified Premium Bundle.
• SnapMirror Cloud: A backup and recovery technology designed for ONTAP users who want to transition their data protection workflows to the cloud. SnapMirror Cloud is an extension to the family of SnapMirror replication technologies. While SnapMirror is frequently used for ONTAP-to-ONTAP backups, SnapMirror Cloud uses the same replication engine to transfer Snapshot copies for ONTAP to S3-compliant object storage backups.
• Multitenant Key Management (MTKM): Provides the ability for individual tenants or storage virtual machines (SVMs) to maintain their own keys through KMIP for NVE. With multitenant external key management, you can centralize your organization’s key management functions by department or tenant while inherently confirming that keys are not stored near the assets. This approach decreases the possibility of compromise.
• Anti-ransomware: Uses workload analysis in NAS (NFS and SMB) environments to proactively detect and warn about abnormal activity that might indicate a ransomware attack. When an attack is suspected, anti-ransomware also creates new Snapshot backups, in addition to existing protection from scheduled Snapshot copies. New to ONTAP 9.11: Optional multi-admin verification to approve administration functions that could result in data loss.

Add-on feature bundles:

• Security and Compliance Bundle: Licensed per 2-node HA Pair, the Security and Compliance Bundle provides built-in protection from ransomware and while also providing the ability to meet regulatory compliance and organizational data retention requirements.
  • Includes: Anti-ransomware feature with Multitenant Key Management (MTKM) and SnapLock

• Hybrid Cloud Bundle: Licensed per TB (3 Year & 5 Year Offerings) the Hybrid Cloud Bundle provides the ability to use S3 SnapMirror from ONTAP to the Public Cloud (AWS S3) and/or SnapMirror Cloud with participating ISV Backup providers.
  • Includes SnapMirror Cloud and FabricPool

Optional Extended features also available via Feature on Demand (FoD) (see the Extended ONTAP features section)

• FabricPool: FabricPool is a hybrid storage solution that uses an all flash (all SSD) aggregate as the performance tier and an object store as the external capacity tier. Data in a FabricPool is stored in a tier based on whether it is frequently accessed or not. Using a FabricPool helps you reduce storage cost without compromising performance, efficiency, or protection.
• No license is required when tiering to StorageGRID or ONTAP S3
• SnapLock data protection: Creates Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) non-rewritable, non-erasable data on hard disk drives to prevent files from being altered or deleted until a predetermined or default retention date.

Software maintenance is included in the DM7100F warranty and support (see Warranty and support for details).

Extended ONTAP features

FabricPool and SnapLock WORM data protection are optional extended features. To obtain these feature licenses, order the part numbers as listed in the following table. Upgrades are supported in specific bundles as listed in the Comparison of software features table.

* Field upgrade only; no factory installation.

Upgrading to Unified Premium ONTAP

To upgrade your existing ONTAP installation to Unified Premium ONTAP, use DCSC to specify the storage you already have installed, since the upgrade license is based on your existing configuration.
https://dcsc.lenovo.com/#/configuration/cto/7D4FCTO2WW?hardwareType=storage

The ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array supports the following management interfaces:

• Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Manager, a web-based interface via HTTPS for single-system management or centralized management of the cluster of systems, that runs on the storage system itself and requires only a supported browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox), so there is no need for a separate console or plug-in.
• Command line interface (CLI) via SSH or through serial console.
• Syslog, SNMP, and e-mail notifications.
• Optional Lenovo XClarity for discovery, inventory, monitoring, and alerts.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F 4U controller enclosure ships with four redundant hot-swap 1600 W (100 - 240 V) Platinum AC power supplies, each with an IEC 320-C14 connector.

The ThinkSystem DM240N 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures ship with two redundant hot-swap 1600 W (100 - 240 V) Platinum AC power supplies, each with an IEC 320-C14 connector.

The ThinkSystem DM240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosures ship with two redundant hot-swap 913 W (100 - 240 V) Platinum AC power supplies, each with an IEC 320-C14 connector.

Each ThinkSystem DM Series enclosure requires the selection of two or four power cables, depending on the quantity of the power supplies in the enclosure.

The following table lists the rack power cable and line cord options that can be ordered for the DM7100F 4U, DM240N 2U24 SFF, and DM240S 2U24 SFF enclosures (two or four power cords per enclosure).

The individually shipped ThinkSystem DM Series enclosures come with the following rail kits:

• DM7100F: ThinkSystem Storage Rail Kit 4U60
• DM240N 2U24 SFF: ThinkSystem NVMe Rail Kit 4 post
• DM240S 2U24 SFF: ThinkSystem Storage Rack Mount Kit 2U24/4U60

The rack mount kits are listed in the following table.

When the ThinkSystem DM Series enclosures are factory-integrated and shipped installed in a rack cabinet, the rack mount kits that support Ship-in-Rack (SIR) capabilities are derived by the configurator.

The following table summarizes the rack mount kit features and specifications.

* The majority of the enclosure components can be serviced from the front or rear of the enclosure, which does not require the removal of the enclosure from the rack cabinet.
** If a 0U PDU is used, the rack cabinet must be at least 1000 mm (39.37 in.) deep for 2U24 enclosures, or at least 1200 mm (47.24 in.) deep for 4U enclosures.
^ Measured when mounted on the rack, from the front surface of the front mounting flange to the rear most point of the rail.

The ThinkSystem DM7100F, DM240N 2U24 SFF, and DM240S 2U24 SFF enclosures are supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • Operating:
    • DM7100F: 10 °C - 35 °C (50 °F - 95 °F)
    • DM240N 2U24 SFF: 5 °C - 45 °C (41 °F - 113 °F)
    • DM240S 2U24 SFF: 10 °C - 40 °C (50 °F - 104 °F)
  • Non-operating: -40 °C - +70 °C (-40 °F - 158 °F)
  • Maximum altitude: 3050 m (10,000 ft)
• Relative humidity (non-condensing):
  • Operating:
    • DM7100F: 8% - 80%
    • DM240N 2U24 SFF: 8% - 90%
    • DM240S 2U24 SFF: 20% - 80%
  • Non-operating: 10% - 95%
• Electrical power:
  • DM7100F
    • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 16.12 A
    • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 8.06 A
    • Maximum system power load: 1579 W
  • DM240N 2U24 SFF
    • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 8.66 A
    • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 4.33 A
    • Maximum system power load: 848 W
  • DM240S 2U24 SFF
    • 100 to 127 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 4.11 A
    • 200 to 240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 2.05 A
    • Maximum system power load: 390 W
• Heat dissipation:
  • DM7100F: 5388 BTU/hour
  • DM240N 2U24 SFF: 2894 BTU/hour
  • DM240S 2U24 SFF: 1331 BTU/hour
• Acoustical noise emission:
  • DM7100F: 8.5 bels
  • DM240N 2U24 SFF: 6.4 bels
  • DM240S 2U24 SFF: 6.9 bels

The DM7100F and DM240N enclosure have a 3-year warranty and the DM240S enclosure has a 1-year or 3-year warranty based on the machine type of the system, as listed in the following table.

The standard warranty terms are customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite (for field-replaceable units FRUs only) with standard call center support during normal business hours and 9x5 Next Business Day Parts Delivered.

Lenovo’s additional support services provide a sophisticated, unified support structure for your data center, with an experience consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction worldwide. Available offerings include:

• Premier Support

  Premier Support provides a Lenovo-owned customer experience and delivers direct access to technicians skilled in hardware, software, and advanced troubleshooting, in addition to the following:

  • Direct technician-to-technician access through a dedicated phone line
  • 24x7x365 remote support
  • Single point of contact service
  • End to end case management
  • Third-party collaborative software support
  • Online case tools and live chat support
  • On-demand remote system analysis
• Warranty Upgrade (Preconfigured Support)

  Services are available to meet the on-site response time targets that match the criticality of your systems.

  • 3, 4, or 5 years of service coverage
  • 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions
  • Foundation Service: 9x5 service coverage with next business day onsite response. YourDrive YourData is an optional extra (see below).
  • Essential Service: 24x7 service coverage with 4-hour onsite response or 24-hour committed repair (available only in select markets). Bundled with YourDrive YourData.
  • Advanced Service: 24x7 service coverage with 2-hour onsite response or 6-hour committed repair (available only in select markets). Bundled with YourDrive YourData.
• Managed Services

  Lenovo Managed Services provides continuous 24x7 remote monitoring (plus 24x7 call center availability) and proactive management of your data center using state-of-the-art tools, systems, and practices by a team of highly skilled and experienced Lenovo services professionals.

  Quarterly reviews check error logs, verify firmware & OS device driver levels, and software as needed. We’ll also maintain records of latest patches, critical updates, and firmware levels, to ensure you systems are providing business value through optimized performance.

• Technical Account Management (TAM)

  A Lenovo Technical Account Manager helps you optimize the operation of your data center based on a deep understanding of your business. You gain direct access to your Lenovo TAM, who serves as your single point of contact to expedite service requests, provide status updates, and furnish reports to track incidents over time. In addition, your TAM will help proactively make service recommendations and manage your service relationship with Lenovo to make certain your needs are met.

• Enterprise Server Software Support

  Enterprise Software Support is an additional support service providing customers with software support on Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, and VMware applications and systems. Around the clock availability for critical problems plus unlimited calls and incidents helps customers address challenges fast, without incremental costs. Support staff can answer troubleshooting and diagnostic questions, address product comparability and interoperability issues, isolate causes of problems, report defects to software vendors, and more.

• YourDrive YourData

  Lenovo’s YourDrive YourData is a multi-drive retention offering that ensures your data is always under your control, regardless of the number of drives that are installed in your Lenovo server. In the unlikely event of a drive failure, you retain possession of your drive while Lenovo replaces the failed drive part. Your data stays safely on your premises, in your hands. The YourDrive YourData service can be purchased in convenient bundles and is optional with Foundation Service. It is bundled with Essential Service and Advanced Service.

• Health Check

  Having a trusted partner who can perform regular and detailed health checks is central to maintaining efficiency and ensuring that your systems and business are always running at their best. Health Check supports Lenovo-branded server, storage, and networking devices, as well as select Lenovo-supported products from other vendors that are sold by Lenovo or a Lenovo-Authorized Reseller.

Examples of region-specific warranty terms are second or longer business day parts delivery or parts-only base warranty.

If warranty terms and conditions include onsite labor for repair or replacement of parts, Lenovo will dispatch a service technician to the customer site to perform the replacement. Onsite labor under base warranty is limited to labor for replacement of parts that have been determined to be field-replaceable units (FRUs). Parts that are determined to be customer-replaceable units (CRUs) do not include onsite labor under base warranty.

If warranty terms include parts-only base warranty, Lenovo is responsible for delivering only replacement parts that are under base warranty (including FRUs) that will be sent to a requested location for self-service. Parts-only service does not include a service technician being dispatched onsite. Parts must be changed at customer’s own cost and labor and defective parts must be returned following the instructions supplied with the spare parts.

Lenovo Services is a dedicated partner to your success. Our goal is to reduce your capital outlays, mitigate your IT risks, and accelerate your time to productivity.

Here’s a more in-depth look at what we can do for you:

• Asset Recovery Services

  Asset Recovery Services (ARS) helps customers recover the maximum value from their end-of-life equipment in a cost-effective and secure way. On top of simplifying the transition from old to new equipment, ARS mitigates environmental and data security risks associated with data center equipment disposal. Lenovo ARS is a cash-back solution for equipment based on its remaining market value, yielding maximum value from aging assets and lowering total cost of ownership for your customers. For more information, see the ARS page, https://lenovopress.com/lp1266-reduce-e-waste-and-grow-your-bottom-line-with-lenovo-ars.

• Assessment Services

  An Assessment helps solve your IT challenges through an onsite, multi-day session with a Lenovo technology expert. We perform a tools-based assessment which provides a comprehensive and thorough review of a company's environment and technology systems. In addition to the technology based functional requirements, the consultant also discusses and records the non-functional business requirements, challenges, and constraints. Assessments help organizations like yours, no matter how large or small, get a better return on your IT investment and overcome challenges in the ever-changing technology landscape.

• Design Services

  Professional Services consultants perform infrastructure design and implementation planning to support your strategy. The high-level architectures provided by the assessment service are turned into low level designs and wiring diagrams, which are reviewed and approved prior to implementation. The implementation plan will demonstrate an outcome-based proposal to provide business capabilities through infrastructure with a risk-mitigated project plan.

• Basic Hardware Installation

  Lenovo experts can seamlessly manage the physical installation of your server, storage, or networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for you (business hours or off shift), the technician will unpack and inspect the systems on your site, install options, mount in a rack cabinet, connect to power and network, check and update firmware to the latest levels, verify operation, and dispose of the packaging, allowing your team to focus on other priorities.

• Deployment Services

  When investing in new IT infrastructures, you need to ensure your business will see quick time to value with little to no disruption. Lenovo deployments are designed by development and engineering teams who know our Products & Solutions better than anyone else, and our technicians own the process from delivery to completion. Lenovo will conduct remote preparation and planning, configure & integrate systems, validate systems, verify and update appliance firmware, train on administrative tasks, and provide post-deployment documentation. Customer’s IT teams leverage our skills to enable IT staff to transform with higher level roles and tasks.

• Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services

  Move existing physical & virtual workloads easily, or determine technical requirements to support increased workloads while maximizing performance. Includes tuning, validation, and documenting ongoing run processes. Leverage migration assessment planning documents to perform necessary migrations.

The ThinkSystem DM Series enclosures conform to the following regulations:

• FCC Part 15, Class A; UL 60950-1
• ICES-003, Class A; CAN/CSA-C22.2 60950-1
• NOM
• CE Mark (EN55032 Class A, EN55024, IEC/EN60950-1, IEC/EN62368-1); ROHS Directive 2011/65/EU
• EAC
• CCC GB 4943.1, GB 17625.1, GB 9254 Class A; CELP; CECP
• VCCI, Class A
• CNS 13438, Class A; CNS 14336-1
• KN32/35, Class A
• AS/NZS CISPR 22 Class A

Lenovo provides end-to-end storage compatibility testing to deliver interoperability throughout the network. The ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array supports attachment to Lenovo servers by using NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC), NAS (NFS and CIFS/SMB), iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage connectivity protocols.

For end-to-end storage configuration support, refer to the Lenovo Storage Interoperation Center (LSIC):
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/lsic

Use the LSIC to select the known components of your configuration and then get a list all other supported combinations, with details about supported hardware, firmware, operating systems, and drivers, plus any additional configuration notes. View results on screen or export them to Excel.

The following table lists the Ethernet storage switch that can be used with the ThinkSystem DM7100F Unified All Flash Array for cluster interconnect and MetroCluster IP configurations.

For more information, see the BES-53248 Ethernet Storage Switch for Lenovo Product Guide:
http://lenovopress.com/lp1226

Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DB Series of Fibre Channel SAN switches for high-performance storage expansion. See the DB Series product guides for models and configuration options:

• ThinkSystem DB Series SAN Switches:
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/rack#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the supported rack cabinets.

For specifications about these racks, see the Lenovo Rack Cabinet Reference, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp1287-lenovo-rack-cabinet-reference

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack cabinets category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the Lenovo Press documents in the PDU category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo.

† Only available in China and the Asia Pacific market.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the UPS category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

Lenovo Financial Services reinforces Lenovo’s commitment to deliver pioneering products and services that are recognized for their quality, excellence, and trustworthiness. Lenovo Financial Services offers financing solutions and services that complement your technology solution anywhere in the world.

We are dedicated to delivering a positive finance experience for customers like you who want to maximize your purchase power by obtaining the technology you need today, protect against technology obsolescence, and preserve your capital for other uses.

We work with businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and educational institutions to finance their entire technology solution. We focus on making it easy to do business with us. Our highly experienced team of finance professionals operates in a work culture that emphasizes the importance of providing outstanding customer service. Our systems, processes and flexible policies support our goal of providing customers with a positive experience.

We finance your entire solution. Unlike others, we allow you to bundle everything you need from hardware and software to service contracts, installation costs, training fees, and sales tax. If you decide weeks or months later to add to your solution, we can consolidate everything into a single invoice.

Our Premier Client services provide large accounts with special handling services to ensure these complex transactions are serviced properly. As a premier client, you have a dedicated finance specialist who manages your account through its life, from first invoice through asset return or purchase. This specialist develops an in-depth understanding of your invoice and payment requirements. For you, this dedication provides a high-quality, easy, and positive financing experience.

The following sales training courses are offered for employees and partners (login required). Courses are listed in date order.

1. VTT Data Management How to sell storage - April 2024
   2024-04-10 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
   Details
   VTT Data Management How to sell storage - April 2024
   
   

   In this course, you will know:
   
   - Why do we sell storage?
   - What are the basics you need to get an opportunity rolling?
   - Why Lenovo for Storage?
   - What is happening in the market today?
   - How to determine traction?

   Published: 2024-04-10
   Length: 60 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Course code: DVDAT209
2. Lenovo Data Backup and Recovery Solution Overview
   2024-03-25 | 40 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo Data Backup and Recovery Solution Overview
   
   

   The goal of this course is to give Lenovo sellers and business partners an overview of the Data Backup and Recovery solution. This course includes general information about backup, archive, disaster, nomenclature and key terms for back and recovery, and Lenovo features and alliance partners software.

   Published: 2024-03-25
   Length: 40 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DSOLO200
3. ONTAP Technical Positioning
   2024-03-14 | 45 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   ONTAP Technical Positioning
   
   

   This course focuses on enabling you to interpret the technical market trends and challenges that ONTAP customers face. You also learn to ask qualifying questions that identify which industries, companies, and customer contacts are appropriate targets for ONTAP software. Module two covers explaining ONTAP features and functionality and enabling you to strengthen ONTAP marketing claims with technical details.
   Learning Objectives:
   • Interpret the technical market trends and challenges that ONTAP customers face
   • Ask qualifying questions that identify which industries, companies, and customer contacts are appropriate targets for ONTAP software
   • Explain ONTAP features and functionality
   • Strengthen ONTAP marketing claims with technical details

   Published: 2024-03-14
   Length: 45 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDMT200r2
4. Data management Overview
   2024-03-14 | 25 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Data management Overview
   
   

   After completing this course you will be able to:
   1. Know more about the data management trends and challenges
   2. Understand the data management portfolio
   3. Find out how data drives business value

   Published: 2024-03-14
   Length: 25 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DSTOO201
5. VTT ONTAP 9.14.1 and Bundle Change Update - February 2024
   2024-03-07 | 25 minutes | Employees Only
   Details
   VTT ONTAP 9.14.1 and Bundle Change Update - February 2024
   
   

   In this course, you will know more about:
   - The new Features of ONTAP 9.14.1 update
   - ONTAP Bundle Update

   Published: 2024-03-07
   Length: 25 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Course code: DVDAT207
6. Selling ONTAP
   2024-03-06 | 22 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Selling ONTAP
   
   

   In this course, you learn how ONTAP software helps your customers simplify data management, access and protect their data across clouds, and future-proof their environments.
   Learning objectives:
   • Explain the value of ONTAP data-management software
   • Describe the features and benefits of ONTAP 9 software
   • Effectively position ONTAP software to your customers

   Published: 2024-03-06
   Length: 22 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDMO102
7. Family Portfolio: Storage
   2024-02-02 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Family Portfolio: Storage
   
   

   This course covers products in the Lenovo storage portfolio, from storage servers to direct-access storage through storage systems.
   After completing this course about the Storage family, the learner will be able to identify products within the family, describe the features of this product family, and recognize when a specific product should be selected.

   Published: 2024-02-02
   Length: 15 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: SXSW1201r16
8. Competing with ONTAP Fundamentals
   2024-02-01 | 16 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Competing with ONTAP Fundamentals
   
   

   Competing with ONTAP Fundamentals is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss the ONTAP Fundamentals license and how to position DM Series Storage with ONTAP Fundamentals versus competition.
   
   
   Objectives:
   Identify How to Position DM Series Storage with ONTAP Fundamentals Vs. Competition
   Discuss the ONTAP Fundamentals License

   Published: 2024-02-01
   Length: 16 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DSTOC100
9. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F Series vs DM7000F Series Infographic
   2024-01-30 | 3 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo ThinkSystem DM7100F Series vs DM7000F Series Infographic
   
   

   Side-by-side comparison between the DM7100F and DM7000F Series Storage

   Published: 2024-01-30
   Length: 3 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DSTOP100
10. VTT ONTAP 9.13.1 and Bundle Change Update - November 2023
    2023-11-14 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    VTT ONTAP 9.13.1 and Bundle Change Update - November 2023
    
    

    In this course, you will know more about:
    - The new Features of ONTAP 9.13.1 update
    - ONTAP Bundle Update

    Published: 2023-11-14
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Course code: DVDAT205
11. ONTAP Data Protection Fundamentals
    2023-11-02 | 76 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ONTAP Data Protection Fundamentals
    
    

    In this course, we discuss the integrated data protection features in ONTAP data-management software. We also discuss the tools and software that you use to manage and monitor the data protection features. You learn about cluster peering, storage virtual machine (or SVM) peering, and data protection relationships. You also learn about the architecture and functionality of the Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapVault, and SyncMirror technologies.
    
    Course DDMT203 – ONTAP SAN Fundamentals is a prerequisite.
    
    
    Course Objectives:
    • Describe the integrated data protection features in ONTAP data-management software
    • Identify the tools and software that you use to manage and monitor ONTAP data protection features
    • Describe cluster peering, storage virtual machine (SVM) peering, and data protection relationships
    • Explain the architecture and functionality of the Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapVault, and SyncMirror technologies

    Published: 2023-11-02
    Length: 76 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT204r2
12. Lenovo DM Series Data Efficiency Guarantee
    2023-10-09 | 10 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    Lenovo DM Series Data Efficiency Guarantee
    
    

    The Data Efficiency Guarantee offers Lenovo customers an agreed amount of capacity savings. If the Lenovo solution does not meet the terms agreed to in the Guarantee, Lenovo will remediate.
    
    Course Objectives:
    • Define the Lenovo DM Series Data Efficiency Guarantee
    • Understand how the guarantee works
    • Describe the sales process for delivering and tracking the guarantee

    Published: 2023-10-09
    Length: 10 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Course code: DDMC100
13. ThinkSystem DM Series Technical 200 - ONTAP Data Management Fundamentals
    2023-10-03 | 90 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ThinkSystem DM Series Technical 200 - ONTAP Data Management Fundamentals
    
    

    This course focuses on enabling you to manage and provision ONTAP systems and it is part of the ISG Sales education supporting our ThinkSystem DM and DE Series education. Before taking this course, you should have completed the ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Overview as well as the ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Technical Overview 100. 200 level technical knowledge is provided separately for the DM and DE Series products.
    
    This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
    
    - Describe the consumers of resources and management requirements
    - Describe the user and administrative roles that manage resources
    - List the various data management products you can use to manage ONTAP systems
    - Define the resources that are commonly provisioned
    - Describe various methods and tools that can be used to provision resources

    Published: 2023-10-03
    Length: 90 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT205
14. ThinkSystem DM Series Technical 200 - ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals
    2023-10-02 | 135 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ThinkSystem DM Series Technical 200 - ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals
    
    

    This course identifies and describes the components that make up a cluster. It also describes the supported cluster configurations and details the steps that are required to create and configure a cluster as well as discusses the physical storage components and the Write Anywhere File Layout file system, also known as the WAFL file system. Course DDMT200 – ONTAP Technical Positioning is a prerequisite.
    
    By the end of this course, you will be able to:
    
    -Identify the components that make up a cluster
    -Describe the cluster configurations that are supported
    -Create and configure a cluster
    -Describe the physical storage components
    -Describe the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) file system

    Published: 2023-10-02
    Length: 135 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT201
15. Assessment for Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Technical Overview 100
    2023-10-02 | 30 minutes | Partners Only
    Details
    Assessment for Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Technical Overview 100
    
    

    This is the online assessment for the virtual-live course Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Technical Overview 100 (DDMT100).
    
    Your objective for this assessment is to complete the 15-question quiz with the minimum passing score of 80%.

    Published: 2023-10-02
    Length: 30 minutes
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT101
16. ThinkSystem DM Series Technical 200 Assessment
    2023-09-28 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ThinkSystem DM Series Technical 200 Assessment
    
    

    This is the assessment for the DM Series Technical 200 training

    Published: 2023-09-28
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT206
17. VEEAM Solutions Sales Training
    2023-09-27 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    VEEAM Solutions Sales Training
    
    

    In this course you will learn about Hyper-availability for the Always-On Enterprise.
    
    By the end of this training, you should be able to:
    
    Identify and explain the core products and solutions offered by Veeam.
    Explain the key benefits and value propositions of integrating Veeam solutions with Lenovo products.

    Published: 2023-09-27
    Length: 20 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOO100
18. ONTAP SAN Fundamentals
    2023-09-26 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ONTAP SAN Fundamentals
    
    

    In this course, you learn how ONTAP provides block access to a host by using SAN protocols. You learn about LUNs and how to map them to a host to enable read and write access. You also learn about multipathing techniques that can improve availability and performance.
    The course objectives are:
    1. Describe how ONTAP provides block access to a host
    2. Explain how SANs use the iSCSI, FC, and FCoE protocols to transport data between a host and storage system
    3. List the steps that are required to access a LUN in a storage virtual machine (SVM) from the host
    4. Describe multipathing between the host and a cluster

    Published: 2023-09-26
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT203
19. ONTAP NAS Fundamentals
    2023-09-25 | 45 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ONTAP NAS Fundamentals
    
    

    This course describes how ONTAP provides file access to clients. The course also explains how you use the NFS and SMB protocols to access files, how you access files over a network, and how you use load-balancing techniques to improve performance.
    Course objectives:
    1. Describe how ONTAP provides file access to clients
    2. Use the NFS protocol to access files
    3. Use the SMB protocol to access files
    4. Access files over a network and use the load-balancing features of ONTAP

    Published: 2023-09-25
    Length: 45 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT202
20. VEEAM Hyper-Availability Integration with ThinkSystem DM Series
    2023-09-20 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    VEEAM Hyper-Availability Integration with ThinkSystem DM Series
    
    

    In this course you will learn about VEEAM Hyper-Availability for ThinkSystem DM Series

    Published: 2023-09-20
    Length: 20 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOO300
21. VTT The Benefits of Scale Out Clustering with DM/DG - September 2023
    2023-09-12 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    VTT The Benefits of Scale Out Clustering with DM/DG - September 2023
    
    

    In this course, you will know more about:
    - What is scale out?
    - Hardware benefits
    - Administrative benefits
    - Scale out Features

    Published: 2023-09-12
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Course code: DVDAT204
22. Storage Masters - Unified Storage on DM Series
    2023-07-28 | 14 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Storage Masters - Unified Storage on DM Series
    
    

    Storage Masters is a multi-module education series. It is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss various storage topics that you will encounter in the field and how to position the valuable features of the DM Series within these conversations.
    
    By the end of this training, you should be able to:
    • Describe the business challenges resolved by the unified storage for the ThinkSystem DM series.
    • Learn about the technology implemented on the DM series of storage arrays.
    • Find out what are the benefits of the technology and positioning.

    Published: 2023-07-28
    Length: 14 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOT2006
23. Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
    2023-07-21 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
    
    

    This course introduces the Lenovo data center portfolio, and covers servers, storage, storage networking, and software-defined infrastructure products. After completing this course about Lenovo data center products, you will be able to identify product types within each data center family, describe Lenovo innovations that this product family or category uses, and recognize when a specific product should be selected.

    Published: 2023-07-21
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW1110r6
24. VTT: SAP HANA Transition and Refresh Opportunity - July 2023
    2023-07-14 | 60 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    VTT: SAP HANA Transition and Refresh Opportunity - July 2023
    
    

    In this session, we cover:
    - What Next for SAP Clients?
    - Lenovo Opportunity
    - Lenovo Portfolio for SAP Solutions
    - RISE with SAP

    Published: 2023-07-14
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Course code: DVDAT202
25. Storage Masters - DM Series - Data Security
    2023-06-30 | 14 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Storage Masters - DM Series - Data Security
    
    

    Storage Masters is a multi-module education series. It is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss various storage topics that you will encounter in the field and how to position the valuable features of the DM Series within these conversations.

    Published: 2023-06-30
    Length: 14 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOT2005
26. Partner Technical Webinar - DE & DM Storage Refresher
    2023-05-23 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Partner Technical Webinar - DE & DM Storage Refresher
    
    

    In this 60-minute replay, Mark Clayton, Lenovo Storage Engineer, reviewed the ThinkSystem DM Storage Array and the ThinkSystem DE Storage Array.

    Published: 2023-05-23
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: 051923
27. Benefits and the positioning of Lenovo ThinkSystem file offerings with WEKA, DSS, and DM+ONTAP
    2023-05-08 | 10 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Benefits and the positioning of Lenovo ThinkSystem file offerings with WEKA, DSS, and DM+ONTAP
    
    

    Course objectives:
    1. Learn about file storage
    2. Understand the different types of storage
    3. Recognize the Lenovo data management portfolio

    Published: 2023-05-08
    Length: 10 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSOLS207
28. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Overview
    2023-02-15 | 25 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Overview
    
    

    This course focuses on enabling you to identify current business and technology challenges for your customers and position the ThinkSystem DM and DE series products, based on the needs of your customers.
    The main objectives are:
    • Identify current business and technology challenges for your customers
    • Position the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series products based on the needs of your customers

    Published: 2023-02-15
    Length: 25 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMO101r5
29. Storage Masters - DM Series Performance
    2023-02-15 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Storage Masters - DM Series Performance
    
    

    Storage Masters is a multi-module education series. It is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss various storage topics that you will encounter in the field and how to position the valuable features of the DM Series within these conversations.
    
    By the end of this course, you will be able to:
    • Understand the key business challenges that companies face with their data storage solutions
    • Describe DM Series features
    • Explain the benefit of DM Series features to customers

    Published: 2023-02-15
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOT2004r3
30. Storage Masters - Hybrid Cloud for DM Series
    2023-02-01 | 30 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Storage Masters - Hybrid Cloud for DM Series
    
    

    Storage Masters is a multi-module education series. It is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss various storage topics that you will encounter in the field and how to position the valuable features of the DM Series within these conversations.

    Published: 2023-02-01
    Length: 30 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOT2003
31. ONTAP Fundamentals Bundle
    2023-02-01 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ONTAP Fundamentals Bundle
    
    

    ONTAP Fundamentals is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss the ONTAP Fundamentals license. By the end of this training, you should be able to position ONTAP Fundamentals within the marketplace; describe the ONTAP bundle; identify when to use the ONTAP Bundle in an opportunity; and determine when to use ONTAP Premium in an opportunity.

    Published: 2023-02-01
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOF200
32. Lenovo DM Storage Series - Hybrid Cloud Solutions
    2022-11-04 | 15 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    Lenovo DM Storage Series - Hybrid Cloud Solutions
    
    

    This course focuses on enabling you to:
    • Identify DM Series Hybrid Cloud Solutions
    • Describe features of the DM Series FabricPool capability
    • Describe features of the DM Series Cloud Volumes ONTAP capability.

    Published: 2022-11-04
    Length: 15 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Course code: DDM201
33. Data Infrastructure Management - DM Series Storage
    2022-10-28 | 25 minutes | Employees Only
    Details
    Data Infrastructure Management - DM Series Storage
    
    

    This course provides a technical overview of the ThinkSystem DM series products. Course DDMO101 – Lenovo ThinkSystem DM & DE Series Overview is recommended prior to this course.
    
    By the end of this course, you should be able to:
    • Recognize the components of the Lenovo Data Management portfolio
    • Discuss the features of the Lenovo Data Management components
    • Describe the features of the SnapCenter software components

    Published: 2022-10-28
    Length: 25 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Course code: DDM200
34. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Technical Overview
    2022-09-15 | 60 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Lenovo ThinkSystem DM and DE Series Technical Overview
    
    

    This course provides a technical overview of the ThinkSystem DM and DE series products. Course DDMO101 – Lenovo ThinkSystem DM & DE Series Overview is recommended prior to this course.
    
    By the end of this course, you should be able to:
    • Describe the Lenovo portfolio for the DM and DE storage systems
    • Explain features of the DM series ONTAP software
    • Explain features of the ThinkSystem SAN Manager

    Published: 2022-09-15
    Length: 60 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMT100r2
35. ONTAP 9.11.1 Update
    2022-08-31 | 30 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    ONTAP 9.11.1 Update
    
    

    This course aims to inform Lenovo and Partner sellers regarding the latest ONTAP 9.11.1 updates and what it means for Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series Storage. Key New Functions and Features with ONTAP 9.11.1 Updates are:
    • Autonomous Ransomware Protection enhancements
    • SnapLock support for FlexGroup
    • Ease of Use (ONTAP S3 enhancements)

    Published: 2022-08-31
    Length: 30 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DDMO201
36. Partner Technical Webinar - DM Overview and Demo
    2022-08-30 | 60 minutes | Partners Only
    Details
    Partner Technical Webinar - DM Overview and Demo
    
    

    In this 60-minute replay, we discussed and demonstrated the ThinkSystem DM Series Storage. Mark Clayton, Lenovo Storage Architect, reviewed the DM and then launched into a demonstration using the DM Series user interface.

    Published: 2022-08-30
    Length: 60 minutes
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: 082622
37. How to Attach Services for ThinkSystem DM Using DCSC
    2022-05-10 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    How to Attach Services for ThinkSystem DM Using DCSC
    
    

    The goal of this training is to review services for ThinkSystem DM products, professional and support services, support levels, and recommended options. By the end of this course, you will be able to summarize the professional services for ThinkSystem DM, identify the levels of maintenance support for the DM series, and recognize the steps required to attach services to DM products.

    Published: 2022-05-10
    Length: 20 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSVC122r3
38. Benefits of All-Flash Arrays
    2022-05-03 | 10 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Benefits of All-Flash Arrays
    
    

    This course starts by comparing and contrasting HDDs and SSDs, and lists the advantages of SSDs in all-flash arrays. Specific advanced features made possible by SSDs in AFAs are discussed, and workloads that are well-suited to AFAs are described.

    Published: 2022-05-03
    Length: 10 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: SXXW1232
39. Storage Masters – Data Protection on DM Series
    2019-08-12 | 30 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Storage Masters – Data Protection on DM Series
    
    

    Storage Masters is a multi-module education series. It is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss various storage topics that you will encounter in the field and how to position the valuable features of the DM Series within these conversations.

    Published: 2019-08-12
    Length: 30 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOT2002
40. Storage Masters – Data Efficiency Technologies on DM Series
    2019-08-12 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
    Details
    Storage Masters – Data Efficiency Technologies on DM Series
    
    

    Storage Masters is a multi-module education series. It is intended to help sellers and partners be able to discuss various storage topics that you will encounter in the field and how to position the valuable features of the DM Series within these conversations.

    Published: 2019-08-12
    Length: 20 minutes
    Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
    Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
    Course code: DSTOT2001

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For more information, see the following resources:

• Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series product page
  https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/data-center/storage/unified-storage
• Lenovo Data Center Solution Configurator
  http://dcsc.lenovo.com
• ThinkSystem DM Series documentation
  http://thinksystem.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/ontap_software/overview.html
• ONTAP Ransomware Protection
  https://thinksystem.lenovofiles.com/storage/help/topic/ontap_anti-ransomware/anti-ransomware.pdf
• ThinkSystem DM Series Installation Videos and Video Tutorials
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLQcIfVNrqzcBW55-7IAe7_Our6nMQxak
• Lenovo Data Center Support
  http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com